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most citedObservation of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data

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astro-ph.HE2015★ 465 cited

A combined maximum-likelihood analysis of the high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux measured with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310

Evidence for an extraterrestrial flux of high-energy neutrinos has now been found in multiple searches with the IceCube detector. The first solid evidence was provided by a search…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 353 cited

Evidence for Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos from the Northern Sky with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +309

Results from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have recently provided compelling evidence for the existence of a high energy astrophysical neutrino flux utilizing a dominantly South…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 79 cited

Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center with IceCube-79

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +310

The Milky Way is expected to be embedded in a halo of dark matter particles, with the highest density in the central region, and decreasing density with the halo-centric radius. Da…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 79 cited

Characterization of the Atmospheric Muon Flux in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham +312

Muons produced in atmospheric cosmic ray showers account for the by far dominant part of the event yield in large-volume underground particle detectors. The IceCube detector, with…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 47 cited

Detection of a Type IIn Supernova in Optical Follow-up Observations of IceCube Neutrino Events

M. G. Aartsen, K. Abraham, M. Ackermann +331

The IceCube neutrino observatory pursues a follow-up program selecting interesting neutrino events in real-time and issuing alerts for electromagnetic follow-up observations. In Ma…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 72 cited

Measurement of the Atmospheric Spectrum with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +308

We present a measurement of the atmospheric spectrum at energies between 0.1 TeV and 100 TeV using data from the first year of the complete IceCube detector. Atmospheric $ν_e…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 77 cited

Searches for Time Dependent Neutrino Sources with IceCube Data from 2008 to 2012

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +304

In this paper searches for flaring astrophysical neutrino sources and sources with periodic emission with the IceCube neutrino telescope are presented. In contrast to time integrat…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 197 cited

Flavor Ratio of Astrophysical Neutrinos above 35 TeV in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300

A diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos above has been observed at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Here we extend this analysis to probe the astrophysical f…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 150 cited

IceCube-Gen2: A Vision for the Future of Neutrino Astronomy in Antarctica

Gen2 Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +325

The recent observation by the IceCube neutrino observatory of an astrophysical flux of neutrinos represents the "first light" in the nascent field of neutrino astronomy. The observ…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 164 cited

Search for Prompt Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300

We present constraints derived from a search of four years of IceCube data for a prompt neutrino flux from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). A single low-significance neutrino, compatible w…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 29 cited

Effective field theory interpretation of searches for dark matter annihilation in the Sun with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Jan Blumenthal, Pavel Gretskov, Michael Krämer +1

We present a model-independent interpretation of searches for dark matter annihilation in the Sun using an effective field theory approach. We identify a set of effective operators…

hep-ex2014★ 137 cited

Determining neutrino oscillation parameters from atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of IceCube DeepCore data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301

We present a measurement of neutrino oscillations via atmospheric muon neutrino disappearance with three years of data of the completed IceCube neutrino detector. DeepCore, a regio…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 296 cited

Atmospheric and Astrophysical Neutrinos above 1 TeV Interacting in IceCube

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +301

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was designed primarily to search for high-energy (TeV--PeV) neutrinos produced in distant astrophysical objects. A search for ~TeV neu…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 55 cited

Development of a General Analysis and Unfolding Scheme and its Application to Measure the Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Neutrinos with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +301

We present the development and application of a generic analysis scheme for the measurement of neutrino spectra with the IceCube detector. This scheme is based on regularized unfol…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 50 cited

Searches for small-scale anisotropies from neutrino point sources with three years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300

Recently, IceCube found evidence for a diffuse signal of astrophysical neutrinos in an energy range of to the -scale. The origin of those events, b…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 1.2k cited

Observation of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +294

A search for high-energy neutrinos interacting within the IceCube detector between 2010 and 2012 provided the first evidence for a high-energy neutrino flux of extraterrestrial ori…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 39 cited

Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Results for Initial LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration +1185

We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neu…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 195 cited

Searches for Extended and Point-like Neutrino Sources with Four Years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301

We present results on searches for point-like sources of neutrinos using four years of IceCube data, including the first year of data from the completed 86-string detector. The tot…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 43 cited

Multipole analysis of IceCube data to search for dark matter accumulated in the Galactic halo

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +299

Dark matter which is bound in the Galactic halo might self-annihilate and produce a flux of stable final state particles, e.g. high energy neutrinos. These neutrinos can be detecte…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 62 cited

Search for non-relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +288

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a large Cherenkov detector instrumenting of Antarctic ice. The detector can be used to search for signatures of particle phys…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 33 cited

Search for neutrino-induced particle showers with IceCube-40

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +287

We report on the search for neutrino-induced particle-showers, so-called cascades, in the IceCube-40 detector. The data for this search was collected between April 2008 and May 200…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 73 cited

Probing the origin of cosmic-rays with extremely high energy neutrinos using the IceCube Observatory

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +275

We have searched for extremely high energy neutrinos using data taken with the IceCube detector between May 2010 and May 2012. Two neutrino induced particle shower events with ener…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 104 cited

Search for a diffuse flux of astrophysical muon neutrinos with the IceCube 59-string configuration

The IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +287

A search for high-energy neutrinos was performed using data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory from May 2009 to May 2010, when the array was running in its 59-string con…

physics.ins-det2013★ 275 cited

Energy Reconstruction Methods in the IceCube Neutrino Telescope

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, R. Abbasi +285

Accurate measurement of neutrino energies is essential to many of the scientific goals of large-volume neutrino telescopes. The fundamental observable in such detectors is the Cher…